Measuring workers' productivity is important for public policy and private-sector decision-making. Due to a lack of … reliable methods to determine workers' productivity, firms often use specific performance measures, such as how different … teachers. To select the right performance measures, and as a result design better employment contracts and improve productivity …

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes … practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity and the main economic … analyzes the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results (from micro-econometric studies …